Emma Watson Quotes
I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I hate the domestic life.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.
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I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.
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I like to pace onstage.
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Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
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We once believed we were auteurs, but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.
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I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.
